

Lee (Timothée Chalamet) and Maren (Taylor Russell) are bonded by their love of blood. General stores, county fairs and, well, Minnesota have never been more eye-popping. The director captures the heartland with fresh, adoring, childlike eyes, not unlike the way fellow Italian Sergio Leone found new vibrancy in the desert mountains and sunsets of “Once Upon a Time in the West.” This is where Guadagnino’s visual mastery takes off.

Lee and Maren head out on a road trip across America, satisfying their cravings and then moving on to the next state, partly in search of Maren’s long-lost mother. He is another eater, and this is the one story in existence in which discovering a hottie is a cannibal is not a red flag. During a stop while on a bus to Maryland, she meets Sully, a creepy fellow cannibal played by Mark Rylance, who teaches her the ropes and tells her, “I never ever eat an eater.” Maren (Taylor Russell) meets a creepy fellow cannibal named Sully (Mark Rylance) in “Bones and All.” Yannis Drakoulidis / Metro Goldwįearing for her life, she hightails it from there and soon meets Lee (Chalamet) at a drugstore.

Maren (Taylor Russell) realizes she can’t tamp down her bloodlust anymore after an, ahem, accident at a sleepover and runs away from her father’s home in Virginia. Their appetite for Homo sapiens over cows, we learn, is a genetic, incurable trait, and they exist on the periphery in secret, like vampires. In theaters.īased on Camille DeAngelis’ novel, the movie shrewdly avoids a serial killer or criminal mood (though crimes they are) by rendering its characters’ perversion almost supernatural. Rated R (strong, bloody and disturbing violent content, language throughout, some sexual content and brief graphic nudity).
